Parthenon Rankings?

[stormngt]

Can any of you guys give me a link to look it up. I have read some comments about them but why are they important?

[mulwin444]

Parthenon rankings? Is this like top ten best Greek ruins?

[Guest]

David Frieze is definitely in this ranking.

[Blarg]

It is a far more robust stat than the Pantherian Rankings that Billy Beane abused for so many years to prop his reputation up and get a part ownership deal.

[stormngt]

F the spelling. What is it?

[Blarg]

Well you have to go back a ways and start with the Pantherian which was based on the idea that all stats related to run differential and park nuetralizing is like a big panther with four paws and a tail. Offshoots of the paws are the claws but I don't want to belabor the details but just think of strikeouts, hits, errors by Freese and walks as part of the apendages and the the tail of course is managers inconstant use of the hit and run and contact play by which way the tail curves.

 

Later they abandoned the Panther because, well you know, Cats. Screw them they are for lonely women on facebook that have nothing else in their lives. So they adjusted everything to represent the Parthenon in Greece with columns and statuary to determine power rankings. I think they went too far using statues with broken arms to represent pitcher on the DL but we are talking extreme geeks that were willing to use cats before.

 

So you have pillars, statues, pavers and of course foundation and roof but essentially what you are doing is trying to construct the team like the Parthenon and the level of the teams accomplishments represents the finish level of the structure. It takes the physical math and turns it into a visual that pretty much explains itself. The more quality stone or marble involved the better you structure or team.

 

Here is an example of the Angels and Dipoto at work.

 

Edited October 6, 2015 by notti

[tdawg87]

It's the "Pythagorean" standings which is based on a team's run differential. I've heard people here calling it the "Pantheon" or "Pantherian" standings for years but I have never heard of that and just assume it to be a typo that stuck.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/rpi

 

"EXPW-L" is what you are looking for.

[Blarg]

Don't listen to Tdawg, he lies.

 

And is stinky.

[tdawg87]

Don't listen to Tdawg, he lies.

 

And is stinky.

 

One of these statements is true.

 

(it's the second one)

[Stradling]

Six wins over projection! Thanks people who made that possible.

[Blarg]

The Greeks.

[tdawg87]

****ing Italians

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Parthenon rankings? Is this like top ten best Greek ruins?

 

I always believed that the best Parthenon was in Athens. It's a matter of personal taste, though.

[Jobu]

****ing Italians

Yeah, Gio was pretty clutch.

[Angel Oracle]

I always believed that the best Parthenon was in Athens. It's a matter of personal taste, though.

I prefer the restaurant in Chicago with the belly dancers.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Is that the club shaq went to?

[ELEVEN]

Well you have to go back a ways and start with the Pantherian which was based on the idea that all stats related to run differential and park nuetralizing is like a big panther with four paws and a tail. Offshoots of the paws are the claws but I don't want to belabor the details but just think of strikeouts, hits, errors by Freese and walks as part of the apendages and the the tail of course is managers inconstant use of the hit and run and contact play by which way the tail curves.

Later they abandoned the Panther because, well you know, Cats. Screw them they are for lonely women on facebook that have nothing else in their lives. So they adjusted everything to represent the Parthenon in Greece with columns and statuary to determine power rankings. I think they went too far using statues with broken arms to represent pitcher on the DL but we are talking extreme geeks that were willing to use cats before.

So you have pillars, statues, pavers and of course foundation and roof but essentially what you are doing is trying to construct the team like the Parthenon and the level of the teams accomplishments represents the finish level of the structure. It takes the physical math and turns it into a visual that pretty much explains itself. The more quality stone or marble involved the better you structure or team.

Here is an example of the Angels and Dipoto at work.

It was almost worth being devoured by this panther of a season, just for this post.

Almost.

[ELEVEN]

Sosh uses a parmesian theory.

[Blarg]

Yes and it grated on Dipotos nerves.

[laagamer]

 

 

Well that was officially ****in' interesting. Thank you for posting that. 

[Make Angels Great Again]

The 1012 Angels outplayed their parthenon ranking by quite a bit IIRC.

[ELEVEN]

They had Ralstious I.

[Homebrewer]

They're really old, and they sit up on a hill.

They light them up at night, so you can see them from anywhere in the city, and when flying in at night they are spectacular.

[Homebrewer]

Ralstamus  Schmidicus?

[ELEVEN]

Ralstdiculous?